María Paz Rodríguez was born in Santiago, Chile. She studied literature and completed a Master’s in Latin American Literature at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
In 2011, she debuted with her first novel, El Gran Hotel (Cuarto Propio), which received very good critical reception, also winning the Literary Creation Grant from the Book Council. Then, in 2015, she published Mala Madre (Alfaguara), a novel that led her to participate in the “Latinoamérica Viva” panel at the FIL Guadalajara 2015 and the Lima Book Fair as a guest of honor. Furthermore, Mala Madre is now in its third edition.
In 2018, she published her first book of short stories, Niñas ricas (Alfaguara), where, like in her other books, she proposes a pop aesthetic intersected with feminism and the problematic place of women in contemporary Chile. This book reached a more massive audience and had two editions in less than three months. ARCA is her fourth novel and will be published by Tusquets in 2024 in Chile.